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My first attempt to find the Tricolored Heron failed after I searched for this bird at Lake 33 for nearly an hour. Birds I saw there were: Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Snowy Egret (2) - my first at Busch CA), Green Heron (2), Canada Goose, Killdeer, Spotted Sandpiper (1), Double-crested Cormorant, Wood Duck, American Crow, Eastern Kingbird (1), Mourning Dove, Barn Swallow, and Tree Swallow. I saw at least five Rudy-throated Hummingbirds at the feeders at the headquarter building. Then I went north to Winfield sandy slough and found a good number of shorebirds but the diversity was not great. The shorebirds I found there were Killdeer, Pectoral Sandpiper ( the most numerous after Killdeer), Semipalmated Plover, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper, Spotted Sandpiper, and Baird's Sandpiper ( I found only 2 or 3 out of over a hundred). After that, I went back to Lake 33, and this time the attempt was successful. It was a juvenile Tricolored Heron and it became No. 301 on my Missouri life list. I have seen Tricolored Herons in Florida, North Carolina, and Bahamas (last March). It was my first in Missouri. Good birding, Jim Hickner ------------------------------------------------------------ The Audubon Society of Missouri's Wild Bird Discussion Forum ASM Website: http://mobirds.org/ ABA Birding Code of Ethics http://www.aba.org/about/ethics.html